scaremonger
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For this he was treated as a scaremonger, even a crank.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
He’s not an orthodox scaremonger, sending his camera gliding down dark hallways in search of the usual ghouls.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2018
I’m not making this speech because I want to moralise or scaremonger, but because I feel profoundly as a politician, and as a father, that the time for action has come.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 22, 2013
"It's very difficult to say any of this without sounding like rather a scaremonger, or someone addicted to worst case analysis," said Paul Cornish, professor of international politics at the University of Bath.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2011
The colossal egotism of the notorious criminal, however, provides him with a conclusion oleaginous enough for a scaremonger of our own day, with a confusion of summject and ommject very much after his heart.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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